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The ever-mutating gonorrhea bacterium is becoming resistant to the dwindling number of medicines used to fight it, and public health authorities are raising alarms about the emergence of an untreatable "superbug" that will reverse decades of progress in lowering infection and transmission rates around the globe.
If this gets out of control, it "could take us back more than 60 years, to a time when treatments for gonorrhea were not reliably effective and when there were no alternative therapies," said Dr. Hook, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Alabama and director of the STD Control Program for the Jefferson County Department of Health.
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